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Americans are pretty much the most vile, selfish and delusional out of all developed nations.

That's because women generally are raised to be children.

This is what is most dangerous about the current political environment in the US: The presidency is no longer an expression of the will of the electors, but rather, the President has become the one who has full control over the will of the electors. This is what is so dangerous. MAGA-supporters don't have any real stance, principles, values other than following Trump. At this point it's true to an absurd, carricature level. Trump could literally do anything, and not only will his followers accept it, they will fully support it and fit what Trump is doing into the value system, that in fact they are in radical support of what he is doing. This is a cult of personality. Trump could have literally pissed into Zelenskies tea and told him during the interview, told him that he will now fully support Russia because Zelensky is a bitch, arrested Zelensky live on TV and drawn a penis on his forehead, and then send him back to Ukraine, or in fact even Russia, via boat. He could have done all of this and suddenly all his MAGA supporters would be pro-russia. He could say that he wants to make friendship with China and invite them to restructure their entire government, so that peace and prosperity can be achieved such as the CCP has achieved it, and he could easily get away with it and all his MAGA would support and love him for how amazing of a leader he is. The guy is basically one step away from becoming a US version of Xi.

Trump is extorting Ukraines position right now to extract a robber-baron mineral theft deal from him, basically blackmailing Ukraine that if he will not sign his deal, he can "fight alone", which will mean Russia just takes over Ukraine. The US has contributed less than the EU, and especially for the size of their economic their contribution is one of the lowest overall proportionally speaking. The US has never supported Ukraine in a full way, and if it had, the situation on the ground might look different right now. Right now the goal is literal survival of the Ukrainian state and it's sovereignty. The plan is to stop holding back on the aid and actually supporting them so they can position them selves better for potential future peace offer, or wait for the Russian state to collapse in it's current form, which is inevitable given the amount of pressure on the economy. They don't have infinite reserves.

THe news sources are trash because the humans that watch news are trash, that's literally 99% of the problem.

That doesn't change that it's an illusion. It only makes sense in relation to the construct that you are, which in the end just relates, as you know, to survival.

You don't have a position, because you have not explained how the death penalty is in any meaningful way necessary for order. It's just a intuitive stance you assume without feeling the need to justify it. The correct stance is that the death penalty leads to more disorder.

@Emerald Connor is a good example of ones fear defining one, in relation to ones reaction to those fears. Connor Murphy's desire to be unashamed, to be able to be as crazy as he wants without feeling any peer pressure, to be free, is a direct result of his social anxiety. What is interesting is that, in essence, he has not freed himself from his peer pressure, but rather, he has transmuted it, he has inversed it and therefore is still defined by it. The fact that he is so obsessed with being weird, coming across as strange and unhinged, because he doesn't care about what people think of him, is still a form of existence which has been shaped by his fear. It's not centered, rather it is just a reaction. The egoic structure in question has not dissolved, but has inversed itself. This is why all spiritual pursuits, and their results, are inherently and necessarily a result of ones nature. There is no such thing as an existence which can free itself completely from this, because any form of existence must define itself through such an illusion of duality. This is why the obsession with "higher consciousness", the dismissal of "ego" and "duality", in and of itself necessarily is defined by the very thing it seeks to reject or dismiss. If higher consciousness were not a reaction to lower consciousness, you could not even refer to such a thing as higher consciousness. This means higher consciousness is an illusion. Another good example of this is a human taking psychedelics, and then exclaiming "I am God!". That exclamation is evidence of the humanity still present (in terms of the illusion) of the individuals making that statement. It's a profoundly human reaction to the dissolution of certain egoic structures.

The internet is becoming like a leech filled pond in which parasitic leeches feed on each other to survive. Turkey Tom is a leech, Connor is a leech, AI is leeching, Crypto is leeching, most content that is produces is in some way leeching, I mean just look at reaction content. It truly demonstrates why most animals in nature are self-serving thieves who steal the calories others have put hard work into to produce.

I have no emotional attachment to the death penalty, again, what I get flabbergasted by is your way of reasoning.

The death penalty isn't the "dogmas of liberalism". You have such a reactionary stance. You have to have actual, good reasons for why any given "liberal" thing is actually negative. If I am for trans acceptance, you can't just say "Liberalism has gone too far, strict gender are necessary for the function of society". And basically, that's the first thing you'd have to say if you wanted to talk about the dogmas of liberalism. The response here is not going back a century to appease the bigots. The response is to find a new, more sophisticated manner of steering individuals.

If you think you can out-define yourself out of green by saying the death penalty is appropriate, I don't knwo what to tell you. You are defining yourself by your reaction to pigs, and now dressing yourself as a pig so the pigs don't think you're a chicken. You bathe in their shit just so you stink as much as they and can proclaim yourself as not as clean as all those pesky, pathetic chickens. This isn't how you save the US. There are far deeper problems here, and the real reason why stage green is perceived as giant pussies is because they are giant pussies. They need to learn how to face adversity, not saying things that sound mean because it will make others think they are cool.

Yes I know, you don't respect us intellectually, fundamentally. Leo we don't need you to trick us into questioning our liberal assumptions by making senseless, provocative statements about the nature of the death penalty. Most people will just ape what you say and not think about anything, and adjust their worldview to your opinion, which is why saying such things can be detrimental. The death penalty is not where the "limits of liberalism" are. Good conservatism is found in social values, that are not coerced but maintained through celebration and encouragement. Abandoning the police is liberalism going too far. Elon Musk disintegrating the US bureaucracy is liberalism gone too far. The death penalty ain't it.

If he said that he is even more naive than I thought. You can't just kill someone instantly because this would obviously make error in the system absurdly high. There have to be lengthy legal processes, you can't just be like "Judge said you day, so you die tomorrow.". You have appeals, it drags on for years before a final decision is made, which is why it has such a high cost. And even then innocent people get executed, despite all of this "assurance" and lengthy process. You can't shorten the process and not expect more innocent individuals to get killed, especially if they can just get killed instantly.